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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:38:36 -0700
From: Josh Triplett <josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC, tip/core/rcu] scalable classic RCU implementation
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 09:05 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:02:30PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 18:53 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:29:32PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 16:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > @@ -658,14 +806,19 @@ int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu)
> > > > > struct rcu_data *rdp = &per_cpu(rcu_data, cpu);
> > > > > struct rcu_data *rdp_bh = &per_cpu(rcu_bh_data, cpu);
> > > > >
> > > > > - return !!rdp->nxtlist || !!rdp_bh->nxtlist || rcu_pending(cpu);
> > > > > + return !!*rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] ||
> > > > > + !!*rdp_bh->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] ||
> > > > > + rcu_pending(cpu);
> > > >
> > > > !! seems unnecessary here.
> > >
> > > Someone once told me why this was necessary, but I forget. It was in the
> > > original, and I didn't put it there. Some weirdness about conversion
> > > to 32-bit integer when the lower 32 bits of the pointer was zero or
> > > some such. So if your pointer value was 0x100000000, for example,
> > > so that conversion to int gives zero.
> >
> > Good point! That doesn't apply if you use ||, though. If you just did
> > "return somepointer" that could potentially cause the problem you
> > describe. In any case, it can't *hurt* to have it; GCC should do the
> > sane thing.
>
> OK. I will review this towards the end, leaving it there to remind me
> in the meantime.
>
> So, would I need the !! on the left-hand operand of the first || due
> to short-circuiting?
No. || will always return 1 or 0. You only need the !! if you want to
directly return the boolean value of a potentially 64-bit pointer.
- Josh Triplett
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